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SINGAPORE/YANGON -- Scholastic groups in Singapore are busy answering demand for first-class education in a region where parents are known for their strong focus on children's education.On Sunday, Singaporean for-profit education group MindChamps Pr

TOKYO -- In early January, Singapore's antitrust watchdog announced that five companies -- Japanese electronics parts makers and local subsidiaries -- had been involved in fixing the prices of capacitors used in electrical home appliances, and in ot

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC says Japanese companies need to improve corporate governance, and that it is keen to work with them to help implement reforms.GIC Chief Executive Lim Chow Kiat said in an email reply to questions fr

TOKYO -- A Singapore-based health care tech startup has set its sights on the Japanese market after receiving fresh funding.Tricog Health diagnoses the risk of heart disease in minutes through analysis of electrocardiogram results by its cloud-conne

Indonesia's e-commerce sector is soaring as technology continues to disrupt consumer behavior. The country gained 11 million new online shoppers in 2017, taking the total to 35 million, according to an FT Confidential Research estimate.Our survey of

TOKYO -- International investors continued to show a strong appetite for real estate last year as it remained a source of relatively high returns in a low-interest-rate world.Global property investment climbed 2.1% in 2017 to $957.6 billion, the sec

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Singapore on Monday announced it plans to raise its sale tax to 9 percent from 7 percent, but said the change will only be made "sometime" between 2021 and 2015.Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told parliament of the plans to r

TOKYO/SINGAPORE/BANGKOK -- Tighter restrictions on foreign labor in Malaysia and Thailand have pushed out millions of Southeast Asian migrant workers, driving up wages and potentially threatening a growth model reliant on freedom of movement and che

SINGAPORE -- Singapore is expected to raise goods and services tax for the first time in more than a decade sometime in the fiscal year starting in April, say economists. Francis Tan, an economist at United Overseas Bank, sees the government hiking

YANGON -- Singapore-based real estate company Oxley Holdings and its consortium partners have been named the preferred bidders for redevelopment around the Yangon Central Railway Station, a $2.5 billion project by government estimate.The company has

Uber Technologies is preparing to sell its Southeast Asia ride-hailing business to Singapore-based Grab in return for a substantial stake in the company, CNBC reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.No deal has been reached yet and the

MUMBAI (NewsRise) -- Asian stocks outside of Japan ended little changed on Friday as losses in Indian lenders offset positive U.S. cues.The Nikkei Asia300 Index ended almost unchanged at 1,445.71. For the week, it added about 4%, rebounding from the

SINGAPORE -- The assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother in Malaysia a year ago has turned previously friendly Southeast Asian nations against the rogue state, though the region still provides loopholes that let Pyongyang eva

SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- A Singaporean man linked in media reports to helping Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics was charged in a court on Thursday for lying to investigators.Tan Tong Han, 35, was charged in the State Court for two offences under Sin